SINTEF Industry news

The smelting industry needs to promote the availability of dust masks of more than one size, according to the research scientists behind a recent working environment study at Norwegian smelting plants.

Experiments in SINTEF’s climate lab demonstrate that solar cells work very effectively in Norway in spite of the rain and cold. But there is one thing that owners should be aware of if they want to get the most from the sun’s energy.

It wasn’t until World War II that plastic products began to be mass-produced as they are today. The war accelerated the need for new technologies, and plastics came to revolutionise the way we live – providing us with durable, mass-produced and...

This ten-tonne test rig has been custom-designed by Norwegian researchers and built under contract by American engineers. It has finally been installed at SINTEF after eight years of planning and construction. This mammoth of a device, nicknamed the...

The research institutes SINTEF Materials and Chemistry and SINTEF Petroleum Research have merged from 1 January 2018. The new institute is called SINTEF Industry.

Read how our solar cell researcher Birgit Ryningen will get more energy out of the sunlight.

Proposals for technological solutions that will result in significant CO₂ emissions reductions in six industrial regions in Europe, are now being drawn up as part of a recently launched joint European research project.

SINTEF has transferred the management and legal obligations of its research association in Brazil to Rio-based ISdB FlowTech. SINTEF will address future opportunities in the Brazilian R&D sector through a cooperation agreement with this association.

The Norwegian metal industry must incorporate gas into its processes, if the industry is to reach its target of zero emissions by 2050, scientists at SINTEF and NTNU claim.